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Silent Revolution

The Transformation of Divorce Law in the United States

By: Herbert Jacob

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Silent Revolution

The Transformation of Divorce Law in the United States

By: Herbert Jacob

Conflict and controversy usually accompany major social changes in America. Such issues as civil rights, abortion, and the proposed Equal Rights Amendment provoke strong and divisive reactions, attract extensive media coverage, and generate heated legislative debate. Some theorists even claim that only mobilization and publicity can stimulate significant legislative change. How is it possible, then, that a wholesale revamping of American divorce law occurred with scarcely a whisper of controversy and without any national debate? This is the central question posed—and authoritatively answered—in Herbert Jacob's Silent Revolution. Since 1966, divorce laws in the United States have undergone a radical transformation. No-fault divorce is now universally available. Alimony functions simply as a brief transitional payment to help a dependent spouse become independent. Most states divide assets at divorce according to a community property scheme, and, whenever possible, many courts prefer to award custody of children to the mother and the father jointly. These changes in policy represent a profound departure from traditional American values, and yet the legislation by which they were enacted was treated as a technical correction of minor problems. No-fault divorce, for example, was a response to the increasing number of fraudulent divorce petitions. Since couples were often forced to manufacture the evidence of guilt that many states required, and since judges frequently looked the other way, legal reformers sought no more than to bring divorce statutes into line with current practice. On the basis of such observations, Jacob formulates a new theory of routine—as opposed to conflictual—policy-making processes. Many potentially controversial policies—divorce law reforms among them—pass unnoticed in America because legislators treat them as matters of routine. Jacob's is indeed the most plausible account of the enormous number and steady flow of policy decisions made by state legislatures. It also explains why no attention was paid to the effect divorce reform would have on divorced women and their children, a subject that has become increasingly controversial and that, consequently, is not likely to be handled by the routine policy-making process in the future.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226389510

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9780226389516

Peace Psychology

A Comprehensive Introduction

By: Herbert H. Blumberg,A. Paul Hare,Anna Costin

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Peace Psychology

A Comprehensive Introduction

By: Herbert H. Blumberg,A. Paul Hare,Anna Costin

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to peace psychology covering interdisciplinary practice, primary psychological topics, core peace studies topics and terrorism.

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404

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Cambridge University Press

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0521547857

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9780521547857

Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty

The Critical Years 1806-1816

By: Herbert H. Kaplan

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Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty

The Critical Years 1806-1816

By: Herbert H. Kaplan

The story of how Nathan Mayer Rothschild financed Wellington's victory over Napoleon at Waterloo.

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234

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Stanford University Press

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080475165X

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The Avengement

Birth of a New Nation: the Confederate States of America

By: V. A. HERBERT

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The Avengement

Birth of a New Nation: the Confederate States of America

By: V. A. HERBERT

One man, Abraham Lincoln, was the sole cause of the War Between the States, l861 1865, and the deaths of almost one million Americans. Honest, compassionate and kind hearted, but forthright to an extreme, Lincoln spoke for millions of Americans who detested slavery, and wanted to eradicate it, and for millions more who wanted to preserve the Union upon confronting the secession of eleven southern states By calling for 75,000 volunteers, men to defend the Union immediately following the attack in Charleston Harbor, Lincoln knowingly inflamed the situation. The war was on. Lincoln wanted it. He also knew that it could have been avoided, it could have been settled amicably without the loss of any men from the North or the South. Lincoln knew that the U.S. Constitution was silent on the issue of secession, that there was then, as there is now, absolutely nothing in the Constitution that prevents any state or any number of states, from peacefully leaving the Union. REVIEW: A great yarn worthy of a Pulitzer. B. Ballard, Rockville, MD

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1496900715

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Highway A1A

Florida at the Edge

By: Herbert L Hiller

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Highway A1A

Florida at the Edge

By: Herbert L Hiller

Highway A1A: Florida at the Edge is more than an insightful guide to the cities and towns along Florida's Atlantic coast. It is also the dramatic story of how tourism begat development, how development begat sprawl, and how this coastal corridor, almost out of the blue, created Florida's original year-round residential downtowns with the power to transform how Floridians live and how the world vacations in the Sunshine State. Highway A1A is anecdotal, authoritative, humorous, and wide-ranging. Passionately Floridian travel writer and tourism analyst Herbert Hiller offers a fuller and more balanced story about Florida's Atlantic coast than any other guidebook. Exploring towns from Callahan to Key West, Hiller covers Florida's 13 Atlantic counties, providing maps, historical and present-day photographs, and recommendations for places to visit, lodge, eat, and shop that are truly local in character. Whether you're a tourist or a roving Floridian looking for some diversion not far from home, Highway A1A will put you in touch with what makes the Atlantic coast special--its dynamic sites and sights.

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600

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University Press of Florida

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0813047099

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9780813047096

'Render unto Caesar'

By: Herbert Loewe

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'Render unto Caesar'

By: Herbert Loewe

First published in 1940, this book re-examines Christ's admonition to 'render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's'. Loewe places the incident in its rabbinical and historical context in order to explain fully the impact of Christ's statement and its potential application to modern relations between individuals and the state. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in New Testament theology or the background to the historical Christ.

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161

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Cambridge University Press

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1107665043

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Edgar Lee Masters

A Biography

By: Herbert K. Russell

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Edgar Lee Masters

A Biography

By: Herbert K. Russell

Drawn from all of Edgar Lee Masters's diaries correspondence, and the unpublished chapters of his 1936 autobiography, this is the first full-length biography of the celebrated author of "Spoon River Anthology", one of the most widely read and discussed volumes of poetry ever written in America. 25 photos.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252073142

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9780252073144

The Barbary Coast

An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld

By: Herbert Asbury

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The Barbary Coast

An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld

By: Herbert Asbury

The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. Owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the same time possessed more glamour, than any other area of vice and iniquity on the American continent. The Barbary Coast is the chronicle of the birth of San Francisco. From all over the world practitioners of every vice stampeded for the blood and money of the gold fields. Gambling dens ran all day including Sundays. From noon to noon houses of prostitution offered girls of every age and race. This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts, tong wars, and corruption, from the eureka at Sutter’s Mill until the last bagnio closed its doors seventy years later.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1667622730

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9781667622736

John Wyclif; A Study of the English Medieval Church, Volume 1

By: Herbert B. Workman

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John Wyclif; A Study of the English Medieval Church, Volume 1

By: Herbert B. Workman

Description: Vital Christian Living Issues Vital . . . pertaining to life; essential; of critical importance. Christian Living . . . the lifestyle of the believer in conforming to the standards of the Bible and confronting the spirit of the world system. Issues . . . a point or matter, the decision of which is of special or public importance. A dictionary can define the terms, but tackling the tough issues of the Christian life requires skillful study and balanced reflection upon the whole of Scripture. Vital Christian Living Issues: Examining Crucial Concerns in the Spiritual Life draws upon the insights and study of numerous evangelical scholars and writers to address crucial questions and issues of contemporary life. Some of the chapters included are: ""What is Spirituality?"" by Charles C. Ryrie ""Re-examining Biblical Worship"" by Kenneth O. Gangel ""Sarah as a Model for Christian Wives"" by James R. Slaughter Christian readers, church leaders, and pastors will appreciate the insight and guidance of Vital Christian Living Issues. About the Contributor(s): Roy B. Zuck is Senior Professor Emeritus of Bible Exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary, where he taught for twenty-three years, including seven years as Vice President for Academic Affairs. He is editor of Bibliotheca Sacra and coeditor of the widely acclaimed two-volume Bible Knowledge Commentary. He has written or edited more than seventy books on Christian education and biblical and theological topics. His books include Teaching as Paul Taught, Spirit-Filled Teaching, and Basic Bible Interpretation.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1620325691

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9781620325698

Victorian Relativity

Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery

By: Christopher Herbert

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Victorian Relativity

Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery

By: Christopher Herbert

One of the articles of faith of twentieth-century intellectual history is that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essentials from the unaided genius of Albert Einstein; another is that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural, or epistemological relativisms. Victorian Relativity challenges these assumptions, unearthing a forgotten tradition of avant-garde speculation that took as its guiding principle "the negation of the absolute" and set itself under the militant banner of "relativity." Christopher Herbert shows that the idea of relativity produced revolutionary changes in one field after another in the nineteenth century. Surveying a long line of thinkers including Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, Alexander Bain, W. K. Clifford, W. S. Jevons, Karl Pearson, James Frazer, and Einstein himself, Victorian Relativity argues that the early relativity movement was bound closely to motives of political and cultural reform and, in particular, to radical critiques of the ideology of authoritarianism. Recuperating relativity from those who treat it as synonymous with nihilism, Herbert portrays it as the basis of some of our crucial intellectual and ethical traditions.

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0226327361

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Book's by Herbert Levy

Silent Revolution

Silent Revolution

Peace Psychology

Peace Psychology

Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty

Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty

The Avengement

The Avengement

Highway A1A

Highway A1A

'Render unto Caesar'

'Render unto Caesar'

Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters

The Barbary Coast

The Barbary Coast

John Wyclif; A Study of the English Medieval Church, Volume 1

John Wyclif; A Study of the English Medieval Church, Volume 1

Victorian Relativity

Victorian Relativity

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